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Why news podcast listeners break up with their favorite shows

Craig Silverman, ProPublicaFebruary 25, 2025

As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

Joshua BentonFebruary 20, 2025

In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content

A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk’s Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.

Hanaa' TameezFebruary 19, 2025

A German news outlet got rid of its comments section — and asks readers to debate instead

Commenters get to engage in meaningful discussions, and Der Spiegel’s moderators have a more manageable workload.

Sarah ScireFebruary 18, 2025

Blurred lines: When it comes to news habits, age may be more important than nationality

A digital media landscape that shapes news habits similarly across borders may be erasing some country-specific patterns.

Joshua BentonFebruary 11, 2025

If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yes)

An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.

Neel DhaneshaFebruary 4, 2025

The BBC asked marginalized groups how it could do better. They didn’t hold back.

“They’re going to the shop for sense-making, I think. And there’s nothing on the shelf.”

Sarah ScireJanuary 16, 2025

Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search

Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong.

Alexios MantzarlisJanuary 8, 2025

Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement

Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.

Mark Coddington and Seth LewisJanuary 2, 2025

Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms?

Plus: Finding the strongest motivations for paying for news, how news orgs can help journalists’ mental health, and why partisan-based news consumption is heavier in the U.S.

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